Brief Overview: In the shadows of 17th-century Rome, a vengeful doctor-turned-assassin, wronged by a ruthless political official, embarks on a perilous quest to eliminate his family's killer, navigating a treacherous web of power and deceit. (Genre: Historical Thriller)

~ is that not the perfect visual image of life and death / a fish flapping on the carpet and a fish not flapping on the carpet ~

A captivating science fiction story where John Harper's world is turned upside down when he is led to a crashed UFO and its mysterious occupants, known as the 'greys'. Teaming up with Dr. Evelyn Chase, a scientist equally driven by curiosity, they navigate a maze of conspiracies to uncover the truth behind increasing UFO sightings and the government's relentless efforts to hide them. Their investigation leads them deep into the shadows of Project Tempest, a clandestine government initiative wrapped in mystery and conspiracy. As they piece together the puzzle, the climax of the story unfolds with a twist that ingeniously connects past riddles to future possibilities, challenging the very perception of reality.

"I fear a terrible fate has befallen me, a most poetic one-- romantic, even." In the 1860s of St Petersburg, poet Nikolay Karakozov finds himself entrapped in a numbing lack of inspiration, during which his desperate search for a muse becomes ever more obsessive with each torturous ode as he becomes entwined in the lives and affairs of his aristocratic patrons. Meanwhile, Polina Lebedev, daughter of a Duke, begins unraveling the secret web of political conspiracy and social hypocrisy surrounding the elite nobles of Russia, including that of her own family's dark history.